Erez
Hebrew in origin, Erez means "cedar," after the tall tree. In Poland it stays rare and entirely male: fewer than 150 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Erez Pronunciation
Erez is pronounced E-res (/ˈɛrɛs/).
What Erez means
Where Erez comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Erez comes from Hebrew, where it names the cedar tree. In scripture and in modern speech, ארז is the plain word for cedar, the tall evergreen of the eastern Mediterranean. A boy given this name is given the tree itself.
The cedar of Lebanon runs through the Hebrew Bible as a figure of height and endurance. Its wood built the Temple in Jerusalem, as the first book of Kings records. Cedar planks lined the walls. Cedar beams held the roof, and the name kept the memory of that timber.
Erez stays a common given name in Israel, worn by soldiers, footballers, and writers. It takes no diminutive and no feminine form. On a Polish class register it would sit without an imieniny, since the calendar of saints holds no Erez. What stays fixed is the sense underneath the letters: cedar, the cedr of the Polish gloss.
How many people are named Erez
1 in 145212 men in Poland is named Erez. 147 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2674 among male names.